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Rh has died and been laid at rest in the most quiet and unostentatious way the most useful and distinguished woman America has yet produced."

Philanthropist. Mrs. Severance was the daughter of Orson and Caroline M. Seamore.-Was born in Canandaigua, N. Y., January 12, 1820. She was the valedictorian of her class in 1835, when she graduated from the Female Seminary at Geneva, N. Y. In 1840 she married Theodoric C. Severance, a banker of Cleveland, where she resided until 1855, then in Boston, and later in Los Angeles, Cal. She was the founder and first president of the New England Woman's College, of Boston, which antedated the well-known Sorosis Club, of New York, by only a few weeks, and Mrs. Severance is frequently called the mother of women's clubs in the United States. She has always been an active worker in woman's suffrage work, having lectured in various states. Has written several memorials and appeals on this subject, which have been read before the Woman's Congress. Has founded clubs in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara; is trustee of the Unitarian Library and president of the Los Angeles Free Kindergarten Association, and is one of the most progressive women of the present day in America. She is now spending the evening of her life in Los Angeles, Cal.

Mary Tileston Hemenway, philanthropist, was born in New York City, in 1822; daughter of Thomas Tileston, a wealthy New York merchant. Her husband, a Boston business man, the owner of extensive silver mines in South America;